The federal government’s initiative ONDC on Wednesday mentioned its beta model has now change into stay in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Open Community for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is an initiative of the Division of Promotion of Trade and Inner Commerce (DPIIT).

It mentioned that together with Bengaluru and Meerut, which have been chosen for going beta stay in September 2022 and December 2022, respectively, the community is now accessible to consumers (shoppers) and sellers in these extra 5 cities.

Customers will be capable of buy from the sellers on the ONDC community by way of 4 lively purchaser functions — Paytm, Mystore, Spice Cash, and Magicpin, it mentioned.

At present, the community has over 40,000 sellers stay in over 200 cities, out of which greater than 18,000 sellers function from these 5 cities.

ONDC had its alpha roll-out in April 2022 in 5 cities to check stay transactions with a closed group of sellers and consumers whereas progressively increasing its footprint.

The principle goal to go beta stay is to permit shoppers to expertise the open community for the primary time, accumulate real-time suggestions and in addition take a look at the community at scale earlier than the pan-India roll-out.

T Koshy, MD and CEO, ONDC, mentioned, “We hope that with this beta announcement, increasingly companies will be predisposed to affix us, benefiting from an early-mover benefit. Moreover, as we contact extra client territories, it additionally offers us the insights and alternatives to enhance the community.” 

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